Translations:Planning and Organizing/121/en

A Digital Archiving System is a system of software and hardware components comprising databases, software tools that manage databases, and storage media. A database stores information about the archive and its contents in an organized collection. Any table, such as the Inventory we created in the previous step, could be seen as a form of a rudimentary database containing information about an archive. An archival software tool then allows for managing a series of such databases, their content, and the relationships between them. Archival software also serves as an interface between the Digital Archiving System databases and the system’s users. The software enables us, in practice, for example, to add item groups to our Inventory or create a new subseries.